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rabc1690

rabc1690

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how does this look before i place my order with OCUK


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i will be using it with my 2x 7870 les for gaming and watching movies/net browsing etc. so will this board be fine in crossfire or can anyone recommend anythin better upto £200 max

thnx
 
So how exactly does it work and who exactly do I trust regarding the bottleneck as there are plenty of reviews that state otherwise. I should know spent hours last night and this morning reading almost every season change hit there was. Also I may have a buyer for my 2 cards which will enable me to go single card
 
Well, you can see a difference in results between CPU with a 7970 using an FX8350 and i5 3570k in reviews.

7870 Crossfire has a fair bit more power, so yeah, logic dictates bottleneck.

I mean you can google as many legitimate FX8350 reviews as you want, FX8350 comes up trumps to a 3570k in gaming with a single GPU set up (Which has a fair less grunt than a 7870 Crossfire)
 
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personally i'd up the budget another £50 and get a far superior intel setup.

for £250 you could be rocking a basic but decent clocking intel mobo (I priced up on one of my personal favourites the z68ap-d3 and a 3570k

you could shave £15-20 off that with a different board and a 2500k but the difference between your spec above and my intel offering is night and day, especially if your gaming and wanting to feed a pair of sli'd 7870's

that said what games are you playing?
 
What I originally posted was severely stretching and a struggle to get that aswell. Games will be mostly car Sims and f1 etc with the odd single player game like far cry 3which I manage to run at ultra settings with the 2cards just now. I thought about a second hand Intel but the prices on ebay are silly for second hand k. Series cpus
 
Get a brand new 3570k and a B-Grade Z-68 board, it *should* work PCI-E 3.0 in the 4x slot so it'll be like 16/8 Crossfire.

That's ~200 quid.

See how you get on with it, if you dislike it just DSR and get the FX6300 set up (Which I expect will be disappointing)
 
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so do i just give them a call to place the order and ask about that board. what one would u say would be the best choice
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I don't know the specifics of that Asus board, so ring up about it and ask, then if it does 8/8 get it over the Z68, as I'm not 100% on the Z68's capability in the second PCI-E lane for PCI-E 3.0.

If it does 16/4, then get the Z68 as that has the chance to be PCI-E 3.0 in the 4x slot.
 
asus board is 16/4. also if i get the 3570k and either of these boards would i see better fps with a single card??? i was advised to sell one card as one on there own is enough to play almost all games at high-ultra settings? if so could claw back most of my money
 
Can't imagine there being much difference with a single card in terms of performance between an i5 and an FX6300.
Obviously, there will be some limited situations ; RTS games and MMO's etc.

Only problem, is future upgrades would likely require upgrading the FX6300.
If you sold a single 7870 now and put more money into your CPU/Motherboard it could pay off in the long run, I mean, I bet all those launch day 1366 are loving how long their CPU's have lasted (5TH YEAR!!) and my 2500k is coming up 2 year old now too and that's not showing any signs of slowing down.
 
think i will go with the gigabyte board as it appears to be better although both only offer 16/4 in crossfire and not sure how much of a dif it actually makes now im assuming that it will run quicker than it does on my a10 just now.

another thing if i leave the cpu at stock speeds is that plenty enough untill i get a decent cooler for the intel
 
With a stock cooler on a 3570k you're going to get 4GHZ as the TDP is barely going to increase.
If the 4x turns into PCI-E 3.0, probably no difference whatsoever, 4x with a 7970 from what I've seen wasn't huge losses.

There's a review which has GPU's at lower bandwidth and the difference wasn't as much as you'd expect.
 
cheers mate so basically with that cpu and the gigabyte board and stock cooler i should be good for 4 ghz in crossfire which should give me better fps than i have with my current cpu and run smoother
 
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